Meanings
adjectiveparacriminal (not comparable)
- not comparableAssociated with or profiting from crime without actually being illegal.
Different types of paracriminal activities increase with reduced law enforcement.
2005, Gerd Junne, Willemijn Verkoren, Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges, page 1932 more examples
The only exception is the paracriminal class already mentioned, the fences and other middlemen who enable thieves to be in society but not of it.
1977, Valeriĭ Chalidze, Criminal Russia: Essays on Crime in the Soviet Union, page 50Many of the youth became saboteurs while others became “paracriminal juveniles” (Kater, 2004, p. 115)
2018, Robert Tynes, Tools of War, Tools of State: When Children Become Soldiers, page 48
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